History of logic - Syntax, Proof Theory

history of logic

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Introduction
Origins of logic in the West
- Precursors of ancient logic
- Aristotle
  - Categorical forms
  - Syllogisms
- Theophrastus of Eresus
- The Megarians and the Stoics
- Late representatives of ancient Greek logic
Medieval logic
- Transmission of Greek logic to the Latin West
- Arabic logic
- The revival of logic in Europe
  - St. Anselm and Peter Abelard
  - The “properties of terms” and discussions of fallacies
- Developments in the 13th and early 14th centuries
  - The theory of supposition
  - Developments in modal logic
- Late medieval logic
Modern logic
- The 16th century
- The 17th century
- Leibniz
- The 18th and 19th centuries
  - Gottfried Ploucquet
  - Johann Heinrich Lambert
  - Other 18th-century logicians
  - Boole and De Morgan
  - Charles Sanders Peirce
  - Gottlob Frege
  - Ernst Schröder
  - Georg Cantor
  - Other 19th-century logicians
Logic since 1900
- Propositional and predicate logic
- Principia Mathematica and its aftermath
- Set theory
  - Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (ZF)
  - The continuum problem and the axiom of constructibility
  - The axiom of choice
  - Problems and new directions
- Theory of logic (metalogic)
- Syntax and proof theory
- Logical semantics and model theory
  - Completeness
  - Gödel’s incompleteness theorems
  - Development of model theory
- Interfaces of proof theory and model theory
- Theory of recursive functions and computability
  - Effective computability
  - The Turing machine
  - Applications of recursive-function theory

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